1990

ECCC rabs split, • • moves up 1n race • Warriors hold off Southwest's Bears for 5-4 victory in nightcap.

run single. The Bears led 9-2 after four in– nings before ECCC (16-18-1, 9-9) scored eight runs in the fifth off just four hits. Five walks led to the big inning. Scott Allen's two– run single did the most damage. ECCC led 3-o in the nightcap before Southwest tied it up with a pair of runs in the fifth. Each team added a run in the sixth, then went scoreless until Eric Davis doubled in courtesy runner Larod Odom with the winning run in the bottom of the 12th. Allen had singled to start the one– out rally. ECCC's Greg Perry's tied the game at 4-4 with a sacrifice fly that scored Joey Boykin in the sixth. ECCC's David Hubbard (5-2) allowed only one hit while strik– ing out four in four innings of relief to keep the Warriors in the game. A 1-2-3 double play in the ninth erased a bases-loaded one-out threat by the Bears. Boykin went 5-for-8 in the twin– bill, homering in each game to run his total to seven. He also drove in four runs. "He's beginning to swing the bat like he did early in the season," Clark said. " He's strong, he's a disciplined hitter, and he's settled into a groove. This was his night." Davis was 4-for-8 with a pair of doubles.

By Marty Stamper Special to The Star

DECATUR - It took six hours and 25 minutes, but East Central and Southwest each gained a game in the race for the No. 2 spot in the MJCA South Division baseball race Tuesday. The teams split a doubleheader with Southwest taking the opener, 13-10, and ECCC claim– ing the nightcap, 5-4, in 12 innings. " I think we've reached the point where we shouldn't be haJr py to split," ECCC coach Jamie Clark said. "We really needed to sweep. We really wanted to sweep, but we just weren' t good enough to do it." A crowd that arrived mostly in shorts and short-sleeve shirts had jackets and blankets before the games were over. Both teams picked up a game on second-place Pearl River after the Wildcats were swept by Hinds, 3-2, 5-4. Southwest (14-14, 9-9) took the opener with four runs in the top of the seventh. A one-out ground ball that hit a water sprinkler head in front of ECCC shortstop Jimbo Patterson turned a poten– tial double-play ball into an inning-prolonging single. Donald Culberson (2-3) then gave up three walks and a wild pitch before Sean Meaux added a two-

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